China has told Turkey the two countries should respect each others’ sovereignty and understanding of ethnic issues – in a possible sign of Beijing’s concern about Turkish influence in Xinjiang.In a meeting with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Ca...

A Chinese consumer rights group is taking KFC to task for its recent meal promotion, arguing that the popular fast-food chain’s limited-edition toys resulted in excessive food waste and compulsive overspending by customers.The pointed criticism by ...

A think tank founded by a former Hong Kong leader has denied a media report suggesting that it would back ex-head of the World Health Organization (WHO) Margaret Chan Fung Fu-chun in March’s chief executive election.Our Hong Kong Foundation issued ...

A pedestrian had a narrow escape when a Porsche mounted the pavement outside a busy Hong Kong market after its driver lost control, leaving seven people injured.Dashcam footage posted online showed a cleaner falling to the ground as the sports car mo...

South Korean rescuers at a partially collapsed construction site in the southern city of Gwangju located a man amid a pile of debris and broken concrete on their third day searching for six missing workers, officials said on Thursday.Crews are trying...

Henan province and Tianjin remain at the centre of China’s latest Covid-19 outbreak, with a total of 117 new cases across both on Thursday, while a city in the country’s northeast has reported its first Omicron infection.In central China, Henan p...

The United Nations’ newly appointed special envoy for Myanmar, Noeleen Heyzer, has called on Asean to work with the UN to facilitate a “humanitarian pause” to the fighting and escalating strife in the junta-ruled nation.In a press statement iss...

A Hong Kong woman has been jailed for 31 months for hurling a 6.8kg metal post from the third floor of a shopping centre in an attempt to prevent police from making arrests at a protest against the national security law.Advertising copywriter Yeung Y...

Health authorities are ramping up Covid-19 screening operations in a high-risk Hong Kong district after a record 32,900 people were tested there in a single day, with some queuing for more than five hours.The government on Thursday announced that an ...

Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Wednesday that China would be donating a further 10 million Covid-19 vaccine doses over the course of 2022.Zimbabwe, like most African countries, is struggling with low rates of vaccination, because o...

A senior Chinese official has called on Wall Street and main street executives to exert their influence in Washington and help improve US-China relations.Huang Ping, China’s consul-general in New York, told the China-US Business Alliance on Wednesd...

Just before dawn on Tuesday, Kim Jong-un watched as a hypersonic missile took flight, “leaving behind it a column of fire,” and adding a new weapon in his arsenal that could potentially slip past US defences and deliver a nuclear bomb.The rocket ...

Boris Johnson bought some breathing space by apologising for attending a party at his Downing Street office during the first pandemic lockdown, but anger in his ruling UK Conservative Party means his grip on power is precarious.Opposition politicians...

With about 12,000 people arrested after anti-government protests in Kazakhstan last week, friends and relatives of those held by police waited outside a jail, hoping to learn their fate.Some even went to morgues to see if a loved one was among the sc...

Indonesia, the top thermal coal exporter, will keep a broad ban on January shipments in place even as exemptions have allowed some fuel-laden vessels to depart.Coal miners that fail to comply with rules intended to secure supply for domestic power pr...

The United States has sent an aircraft carrier strike group and a landing helicopter dock group to the South China Sea where the Chinese aircraft carrier Shandong exercised two weeks ago, adding new tension to the hotspot.The Nimitz-class aircraft ca...

With Russian troops massing and the spectre of war looming over the trenches of eastern Ukraine, soldiers in the dugouts have found solace in the unlikely companionship of stray cats and dogs.In a muddy and freezing trench near the town of Avdiivka, ...

After graduating from a vocational school with a degree in chemical equipment maintenance in 2019, Zhang Cheng joined a natural gas company in northwest China on a salary of 6,000 yuan (US$941) per month, higher than the national average for all grad...

Australia on Thursday reported its biggest pandemic caseload with a runaway Omicron outbreak driving up hospitalisation rates as the surge put severe strain on supply chains forcing authorities to ease quarantine rules for more workers.After successf...

From British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to reality TV star Kim Kardashian, the Dutch royals and now tennis superstar Novak Djokovic, a slew of politicians and celebrities have found themselves in hot water over Covid-19 rules.Here are some of the m...

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor has used the first meeting of the new Legislative Council term to unveil details of the biggest overhaul of the government since 2007, but critics have questioned whether the restructuring goes far enough.T...

China’s state-backed Blockchain Services Network (BSN) plans to roll out infrastructure at the end of this month to support the deployment of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), a major step to creating a Chinese NFT industry that is not linked to cryptocu...

With its bumpy peelable skin, large pit and juicy meat, the humble lychee is one of the most iconic fruits in Asia.It is also steeped in history. The lychee first appeared in historical records in China in 200BC. Centuries later, Chinese leaders duri...

In Yanjiao, on the eastern outskirts of Beijing, commuters have learned from experience to get up early if they want to avoid spending hours on the road.A sleeper town 35km (22 miles) from Tiananmen Square, in the heart of the capital, Yanjiao has a ...

Several Beijing loyalists adopted an adversarial stance as self-styled “bad boys” daring to hold the government accountable at the inaugural meeting of the new legislative term in Hong Kong on Wednesday.Analysts said the legislators, newly electe...

The crash of one of Taiwan’s most advanced fighter jets during a routine drill on Tuesday points to problems with pilot training and fatigue from responding to repeated sorties by the PLA, analysts said.The F-16V jet crashed into waters east of Tai...

The US government stepped up its criticism of China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea on Wednesday, issuing a report that declares “historical rights” a meaningless term.Referencing the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the...

Five letters, six attempts, and just one puzzle to solve per day: the “Wordle” formula couldn’t be simpler, but in a matter of weeks the online brain teaser has got millions guessing around the world.“It just grabs you,” daily player Susan ...

Tokyo is embarking on a series of ambitious next-generation nuclear projects that could power Japanese industry for decades to come and go some way towards erasing the blot on its reputation caused by the Fukushima disaster.A key element in the devel...

A Hong Kong developer is providing furniture tailor-made for children living in subdivided flats to help improve their posture and eye health when studying.Hongkong Land partnered with the Jockey Club Design Institute for Social Innovation of Polytec...

The Covid-19 story of the year is playing out in Hong Kong, and children again have a starring role. On Tuesday, Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor announced that all kindergartens and primary schools will be closed for on-campus learning unt...

Omicron could be the beginning of the end of the pandemic, the Swiss government said Wednesday as it slashed quarantine times and prolonged restrictions to control the Covid-19 variant.“We are perhaps on the eve of a turning point which could be de...

Washington plans to cooperate with the European Union on confronting China’s non-market practices in the aerospace industry, US Trade Representative Katherine Tai said on Wednesday.Washington’s top trade official also promoted trilateral cooperat...

Squid Game made history on Wednesday as the first non-English-language television series and the first Korean series to score a nomination for a Screen Actors Guild Award.The hit Netflix show, created by Hwang Dong-hyuk, is nominated for ensemble in ...

The Omicron variant of the coronavirus started circulating in the northern Chinese port city of Tianjin during the three-day New Year holiday, health authorities said on Wednesday as the city of 14 million launched a second round of mass testing.Offi...

Former US president Donald Trump is slamming politicians who refuse to say whether they have received Covid-19 booster shots as “gutless”.“You gotta say it. Whether you had it or not, say it,” Trump said in an interview that aired on Tuesday ...

The Biden administration on Wednesday criticised China’s decision to cancel a growing number of flights from the United States to China because of passengers who later tested positive for Covid-19 and warned it could take action in response.“Chin...

South Korea has a higher dependency on China for semi-finished goods and material parts than Japan and the United States, and Seoul must take action to mitigate associated risks, a new report said on Wednesday.Some 29.3 per cent of South Korea’s ma...

The US Treasury Department on Wednesday announced new financial sanctions targeting a group of North Korean nationals living in China over their alleged role in aiding Pyongyang’s illicit weapons programmes.The sanctions come one day after North Ko...

On January 3, the US, Russia, China, France and the UK, the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, released a joint statement in which they pledged to work towards a nuclear-free world. The statement emphasised the need to avo...

An Iranian “espionage network” used Facebook to recruit Israeli women who were manipulated into photographing the US embassy and other activities, the Shin Bet domestic security agency said Wednesday.The women, whom the Shin Bet did not identify,...

US consumer prices soared last year by the most in nearly four decades, illustrating red-hot inflation that sets the stage for the start of Federal Reserve interest-rate hikes as soon as March.The consumer price index climbed 7 per cent in 2021, the ...

Just 13 per cent of Lithuanians support Vilnius’ hardline policy toward China, according to a government poll that adds to the pressure mounting on its foreign ministry.In a survey conducted by a private company on behalf of the ministry, just 1 pe...

A judge has – for now – refused to dismiss a lawsuit against Britain’s Prince Andrew by an American woman who says he sexually abused her when she was 17.Stressing on Wednesday that he was not ruling on the truth of the allegations, US District...

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A government advisory panel has recommended administering smaller doses of the German-made BioNTech coronavirus shots to Hong Kong children as young as five, even though the distributor for the vaccine has not applied to lower the age restriction for...

China is positioning itself as a prominent player in the Middle East with a string of meetings promising an upgrade in ties, the sealing of a free-trade agreement and deeper strategic cooperation in a region where US dominance is showing signs of ret...

A Hong Kong opposition activist has been arrested again for allegedly violating his bail conditions by making remarks and committing acts that could endanger national security.Owen Chow Ka-shing, who was out on bail ahead of his subversion trial, was...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson sought to head off a growing revolt within his own party, offering an apology for attending what he called a “work” event in the Downing Street garden during lockdown, when outside parties were illegal.“Ther...

Pony Ma Huateng, the founder and chief executive of Tencent Holdings, warned employees last month that the company could be replaced at any time in a speech emphasising the company’s role in providing a service to society, according to a report by ...